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gish-gallop

How to use gish-gallop in a sentence. Live example sentences for gish-gallop pulled from indexed public discussions.

Editorial note

Again, you can answer your own question by reading the tiny thread, instead of responding with even more gish-gallop.

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Quick take

Again, you can answer your own question by reading the tiny thread, instead of responding with even more gish-gallop.

Example sentences

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Again, you can answer your own question by reading the tiny thread, instead of responding with even more gish-gallop.

2

Multi-paragraph gish-gallop answers that say absolutely nothing, and liability for truth deferred to the machine, shrugging shoulders of metal and silicon.

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Nope, and you should read the rest of the thread before replying with gish-gallop.

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Also, you can't claim cherry-picking as invalid against gish-gallop.

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I think people can also gish-gallop unintentionally; especially in online discussion threads.

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The OP's comment is an obvious gish-gallop.

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To avoid the cost/expense of a jury trial, public prosecutors threatens to press for a large number of charges or some very serious charges - carrying the potential of very long sentences - a sort of Gish-gallop approach.

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I have noticed a couple of posters in this thread posting a gish-gallop of links (mostly from discredited sources) purporting to prove something, but one sees upon inspection that they in fact do nothing of the sort.

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Also related - Gish-gallop During a typical Gish gallop, the galloper confronts an opponent with a rapid series of specious arguments, half-truths, misrepresentations, and outright lies, making it impossible for the opponent to refute all of them within the format of the debate.[2] Each point raised by the Gish galloper takes considerably longer to refute than to assert.

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How do you use gish-gallop in a sentence?

Again, you can answer your own question by reading the tiny thread, instead of responding with even more gish-gallop.